Australia
Mark Broomhead: death of senior Screen Australia lawyer
Mark Broomhead has died of cancer at the age of 42, leaving a young family. He was the business affairs…
AACTA : 3rd international nominations orbit around Hollywood
Eighty members of the International Chapter of AACTA has nominated a total of fifteen films displaying 'excellence regardless of geography'.…
Post Production: crucial questions to define our future, part 2
Three years ago, the post production sector went into the annual SPAA conference with a looming sense of catastrophe. At…
ICAA: close to a complete VPF system
One hundred sites have now signed up to the Independent Cinemas Association of Australia's Network Operations Centre, which runs the…
Andrew Plain: dies in Sydney Hospital
Andrew Plain, the remarkable and much loved sound designer, sound editor and supervising sound editor, proprietor of Huzzah Sound, died…
Berlinale: Australians confront St Nick in early announcements
While the complete Generation programme won't be announced until mid-January, twelve titles including two from Australia are teased out pre-Christmas
Asia Pacific Screen Awards 20123: back from the grave with all necessary splendour
What better way to promote a World City than a grouse set of awards from all over the Asia-Pacific? Actually…
ASTRA: announces its own finalists for March Awards
While sport dominates the ASTRA awards, a variety of locally produced programs peep wave their tiny, excited hands at the…
Toronto: reviews for Australian films emphasise arthouse appeal
The Railway Man has left key industry reviewers with pursed lips, though the papers generally concede it got a standing…
American Hustle
An all-star cast featuring Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale feature in this authentic, intelligent film.